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Sergio Signori
Yes, it begins to speak (and to experience) of affectivity in hospitals. For some years the Hospital of Tor Vergata in Rome has formed the "Group of affect of nursing care" with the aim of integrating and harmonizing the gesture of care through the practice of massage and touch in general. "The Group of affection can undress from the superstructures that requires daily. The nurse-patient relationship is changed fortified assisting a growing confidence in a health care professional can understand in an intimate, without thefear of the proceedings. The practice of the contact becomes an operational tool for assisting in his everyday life through massage, indirectly, also can raise many colleagues communicationthrough touch. The increase in the number of the group and demand more and more recognition of the person in patient leaves hope for a future in which the massage becomes a complement to traditional care. "(From" The nursing of contact: the experience of touch in nursing care and affection "of Henry and Luana De Luca Papaleo. The Nurse- 5 / 6 2010).
In Bolzano experience of Biodanza was made to contact and education for nurses, with considerable success and satisfaction of participants. So far, the contact and touch were designed "only" as a technique for therapeutic purposes. Here it comes, instead of massage andmore generally as an exchange of experiences and contact with an intrinsic value, beyond any form of therapeutic effect that can be proposed. Also because the touch is the sense of immediate reciprocity: you can not touch without being touched.
Because we talk a lot of nurses? because it is seen that about 85% of nursing acts involving physical contact, but certainly the speech can be extended to midwives and teachers ofkindergartens, rehabilitation, physiotherapist, osteopaths, chiropractors, etc.. Webelieve that all treatment and rehabilitation professions would derive a great advantage since the introduction of the principles and practice of the "Good contact" is a contact attentive, respectful, never intrusive, and empathic, that is, in reciprocal exchange with the other person .We had direct evidence of good effects (also documented by lower demand for drugs) in in institutions for elderly people with impaired mental functions (House protected "Valleverde" to Raschignano - Bologna).
There is another aspect, equally important, that nurses have reported in the experiences made so far: a great help for job stress (the so-called "burn-out") and a significant improvement in relations between colleagues.
And 'We intend to achieve in the spring of 2012, a conference which will discuss all aspects ofthe' Education to contact the Good Contact in various areas of life. We hope that these important innovations will help to create what many now call the "culture of empathy."